Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
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Multicenter Study
The Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy: preliminary psychometrics and group comparisons in Italian physicians.
To examine the psychometrics of the Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy (JSPE) among a sample of Italian physicians. ⋯ Findings generally provide support for the construct validity and reliability of the Italian version of the JSPE. Further research is needed to determine whether the lack of statistically significant differences in empathy by gender and specialty is related to cultural peculiarities, the translation of the scale, or sampling.